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Official wartime caption: “Lining up for their first target practice. Revolver practice. 1940, naval ratings receiving revolver instruction. They are under the guidance of commissioned gunner, F.E. Bisson, RN, who has been a gunner for …

I hope the title doesn’t seem too presumptuous, but it was the best I could come up with in terms of this week’s topic. Let me explain. First, some background. A few years ago, I …

I remember one (well funded, natch) education non-profit leader telling me at a dinner a few years ago how crazy, and disrespectful, it was for me to say that Black people might vote for Donald …

This week long event of scything across the Shropshire Hills included getting a lot of bracken cut plus a few meadows along the way. It culminated in a competition and BBQ. The results from the …

Home fragrance and lifestyle brand, Homesick Candles, has partnered with KFC to bring the aroma of KFC’s secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices into your home. From the crispy, savory notes of fried chicken …

I find myself, and men generally, ignorant of comfort's utility. We may even see comfort as counter-productive or hindering efficiency. This is potentially bad and destructive. Our blind spot may stem from the benefit, at …

OpenAI (who owns ChatGPT) released a new model today. It is called o1. The main difference between models like 4o is it inherently performs chain of thought reasoning when producing an answer. What is chain …

Olympic Silver Medal Finally Awarded to Tim Koleto Today, my friend Tim Koleto was awarded the Olympic Silver Medal with the Japan figure skating team in Paris at the Victory Ceremony near the Eiffel Tower …

This is something of a "low-hanging fruit" character. I am sure everyone has at least considered this character at one time or another, but I figured I might as well stat her up.The GovernessThe Time …

Today’s post is by author Elinor Florence. Several years ago, I participated in National Novel Writing Month, a creative writing event known as NaNoWriMo. I joined hundreds of thousands of other writers around the planet …

Imagine that someone challenges you to add 2 “3 digit numbers” in your head without being able to see the numbers on a piece of paper or on a screen. For most people this would …

In the previous article we showed how to automate the migration from callbacks to async/await for Mocha tests using jscodeshift. We started from the jscodeshift-ts-template repo and added the final implementation to the ts-codemods repo. …

Pre-made "skinny" stones being bulked with foam. Inspector Vulture approves.Shaped and coated with joint compound over paper mache'.Painted black and dry-brushed white.While I have several ideas for scratch-built monuments, this was another year to simply …

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I thought it’d be fun to celebrate spooky season with a little stats punny plot. We’re going to turn a normal distribution into a paranormal distribution! HA! Ok first let’s get some packages. library(tidyverse) library(tweenr) …